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Welcome to HelSec April meetup!

This event is powered by Elisa and Terveystalo.

We are excited to invite you to join us for a community evening filled with great talks, engaging discussions, and good company on Thursday, April 23rd. We are thrilled to have two fantastic speakers lined up for the event: Susanna Haavisto and Mikael Nilsson!

If you get a ticket but your plans change, please remember to cancel it so that someone on the waitlist can grab your spot.

Schedule

17:30 - Doors open
18:00 - Word by HelSec
18:10 - Susanna Haavisto - Roll for Security: Can You Actually Reduce Human Risk?
19:00 - Q&A, networking
19:45 - Mikael Nilsson - When AppSec Becomes Ticket Theater — and How to Do Better
20:30 - Q&A, networking
22:00 - Event ends

Speaker bio

Susanna Haavisto is a Customer Education Manager at Hoxhunt, where she focuses on managing human risk through behavior change. She is passionate about improving cybersecurity training and communication, and reducing friction so that people can make more secure choices in everyday work and daily life. Outside of work, she is a game master in tabletop RPGs, where dealing with unpredictable human behavior is part of the job.

Mikael Nilsson Mikael Nilsson is the Product Security Lead for Customer Intelligence R&D at SAS Institute Inc. He spends his time helping engineering teams ship fast without shipping risk, by embedding security and privacy into DevOps and SDLC practices rather than bolting them on afterwards. He is responsible for the security and privacy aspects of SAS Customer Intelligence 360, a global multi-tenant SaaS platform, and regularly works at the intersection of cloud architecture, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, and customer-facing security discussions. Outside of work, Mikael is a serious casual gamer, a groomed-slope carver, a fan of Japanese cars, and is known to sample weird craft beer wherever he may roam.